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C. BBIDLER.

Mechanical Movement.

No.232,232. Patente-d sept. 14,1880.

N.PErERs, PHOTaLITHoGRAPHER. WASHNGTDN. D C4 y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES BEIDLER, OF ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO EDWARD HARVEY, OF SAME PLAGE.

MECHANICAL MOVEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,232, dated September 14, 1880.

Application filed June 14, 1880.

To all whom t't may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES BEIDLEE, a citizen of the United States, residing in Allentown, in the county of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew Meehanical Movement, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of mechanical movements in which 1o a rapid oscillating movement is imparted t0 a rock-shaft from a slowly-rotating drivingshaft by means of cam-wheels on the latter acting' 011 arms on the said oscillatin g shaft; and the object of my invention is to reduce the wear and tear of parts and waste of power incidental to motions of this class by the interposition of gearing which enables me to impart the'required rapid movement to the rock-shaft by simple and easily-workin g eccenzo tries in place of the usual wheels with a multiplicity of abrupt projections.

In thc accompanying dra-wings, Figure l is a plan view, showing the application of the movement to a reaping or mowing machine,

and Fien 2 a section on the line I 2, Fig.'].

A represents a frame, which is provided with suitable bearings for two transverse shafts, B and D, and a longitudinal shaft, E. The shaft B is the driver, and in this instance 3o is the main shaft of a harvester, and is provided with the usual wheels F F.

E is the shaft, to which a rapid oscillating motion is to be imparted, this shaft bein g provided at one end with arms m m, each having an anti-friction roller. This rock-shaft, with its arms and rollers, is an old devlce; but 1t has usually been combined with two large wheels on the driving-shaft, the said wheels having a number of abrupt project-ions which 4o act on the anti-friction rollers of the arms, so as to impart the desired rapid osclllating 'or rocking movement to the shaft E. This de vlce I consider defective because the projections on the driving-wheels'must necessarily be abrupt, and therefore objectionable as a means of transmitting power, the desired rapid rock- (No model.)

ing of the shaft being obtained, but by means which necessarily cause a rapid wearingof the operating parts andan undue absorption of the power of the driving-shaft. In order to vovercome this difficulty, and at the same time impart the desired rapid motion to the rockshaft, I use an intermediate shaft,D,provided with two eccentrics, c, for acting on the antifriction rollers a n of the'arms m mi of the shaft E, the said ecccntrics being so secured to the shaft D that they must impart a rocking motion to the shaft E, the desired rapidity of the Vmovement bein g obtained by gearing consisting of a large cog-wheel, o, on the drivingshaft and a pinion, b, on the shaft D, which must necessarily revolve at a much faster speed than the said driving-shaft. It is the intervention of this gearing which enables me to use the genti y-operatin g eccentrics for actuating the rock-shaft in place of the objectionable power-absorbing abrupt projections'heretofore employed in that class of motions to which my invention relates.

The shaft E is provided with an arm, which may be connected to the cutter-bar of a harvester, or the movement may be adopted wherever` a rapid vibrating motion has to be imparted to a shaft from a slowly but continuously rotating drivin g-shaft.

I elaim-as my invention- A mechanical movementin which a drivingshaft and a rock-shaft, E, and its arms m m, provided with rollers, are combined with an intermediate shaft havingeecentrics ce, and with gearing by which the said intermediate shaft is rotated by the driving-shaftat a greater speed than the latter, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES BEIDLE R.

Witnesses:

T. B. LEISENEING, W. G. HOFFMAN. 

